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    An Assessment of the Strengths and Challenges of a Residential approach and a Community based approach to Caring for HIV positive Orphans :a case study of Grace Children's Center and the Lea Toto program
    (2014-05-16) Rogers, Valerie
    The objective of this study was to assess the strengths and challenges of a community based model and a residential model of care for HIV positive orphans. In order to achieve this purpose, research was carried out with two different ministries in Nairobi, Kenya: Lea Toto, a community based model, and Grace Children's Center, a residential model. The research was a qualitative study and data was collected primarily through ethnographic interviews with caregivers and staff members from each program. Questionnaires were also used to gather background information about each program. The researcher examined the strengths and challenges of Grace Children's Center and Lea Toto in light of literature discussing HIV/AIDS, orphans, and programs to care for orphaned children. The findings revealed that both programs have many strengths and are effectively caring for HIV positive orphans. The main strengths of Lea Toto are that they empower willing caregivers, the caregivers are familiar adults, their impact extends to the entire community, and they have the capacity to address stigma in the community. The main strengths of Grace Children's Center is that they are able to provide care for children who are abused, neglected, or threatened, the home functions as a family rather than an institution, and they are able to provide total care for the children. Both ministries also face challenges. Lea Toto faces the challenges of poverty in the community and monitoring the administration of drugs by the caregivers. Grace Children's Center faces the challenges of stigma and limited travel outside of the residential home for the children. Based on these findings, recommendations were made for community based programs and residential homes to work together to meet the needs of HIV positive orphans. Recommendations were given for community based programs to economically empower caregivers and to engage and empower the entire community. Recommendations were given for residential homes to foster a family environment and to integrate their children into the surrounding communities.
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    Church leadership perception of care to the orphans in Bunia :with refernce to postwar situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
    (2014-04-23) Kile, Dino
    The purpose of this study was to understand the perception of Church leaders in Bunia on the church's care to the children that were orphaned due to war. It explored the church's ministry to orphans as well as factors that hindered addressing the issue of orphans. Data was collected by using interview which was aimed to church leaders whereby one leader was interviewed from each church in Bunia. The procedure used to analyze the findings was based on grounded theory approach with focus on qualitative method. The research findings, as a result, revealed that the church in Bunia is inactive to take care of orphans because of poverty and lack of biblical teaching about her responsibility to minister to orphans. Poverty and lack of biblical teaching were found to be major hindrances to the need to take care of orphans. Because the church does not address the issue, orphans lack education, shelter, heaIthcare, the word of God. They are subjected to live on their own, cast away from the rest of the community, and most of them find their place in the streets where they are exposed to poverty, premature sexual practices, sexual abuse, drug, theft, insecurity, diseases, HIV /AIDS, premature death, persistent trauma, and dirty words. Some recommendations were made to the church and leaders, and for further studies. Recommendations for the church aim at encouraging and suggesting way forward in taking care of orphans in Bunia, whereas further study recommendation consists of suggestion of possible topics vis-a-vis orphans that need to be exploited
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    Understanding the challenge of the care of orphans in the Free Methodist Church of Kenya
    (2014-04-17) Nanjowe, Neddy Mundia
    The problem of orphans in Kenya is blooming significantly. The challenge of how to care for them is increasingly critical to achieving a healthy society. Understanding the role of church leaders in the challenging care for orphans is necessary. To be able to understand how best the church functions in addressing the orphan problem, the principal objective of this study was to understand why church leaders of the FMCK have not been able to offer significant help in caring for orphans in the church. Using a descriptive approach, this study employed a closed-ended questionnaire as an instrument of data collection. Fifty church leaders were sampled. They included local congregation and denominational leaders of the Free Methodist Church of Kenya. Results of the study revealed that leaders perceived themselves to have a magnificent task of using their position of influence to offer care ministries to orphans in the church. Financial constraints and ignorance on the care of orphans were ruled out as excuses for not establishing a ministry to orphans. These leaders also indicated that the church has a social obligation to care for orphans. As a result the following recommendations emerged: 1) leaders should use their leadership positions to build a ministry for orphans. 2) Leaders should prioritize an orphan care ministry alongside other church ministries so as to raise up a healthy generation. Last but not least, church leaders are to be in the frontline to offer leadership guidance in the fight against HIV/AIDS which was noted as the highest cause in increase of orphans.